6.22.2009

6.19.2009

Tomoji Tanabe, the world’s oldest man, died in his sleep in his home in Japan on Friday. He was 113. Born on September 18, 1895, Tanabe had eight children, 25 grandchildren, and 53 great-grandchildren. He was certified as the oldest man by the Guinness Book of World Records when he was 111.

6.13.2009

6.10.2009

The US has a MAJOR debt problem. Including future social security and Medicare expenses we owe $65 TRILLION. Because we live in a world in which the words, “billion” get thrown around with too much ease, I’d like to put that number into perspective.

Let’s say you have a stack of $1,000 bills. $1 million would be a stack eight inches high. $1 billion would be a stack 800 feet high (think the Washington Monument). And $1 trillion would be a stack 142 miles high. Total US debt, if laid on its side, would be a stack of $1,000 stretching more than 1/3 of the way around the earth.

6.09.2009

6.04.2009

6.03.2009

Meant to put these folks up long ago, here they be, hard at it still. A family of four from Idaho riding from Alaska to Argentina, pretty rad. I met them on the road in Wyoming and they're in Nicaragua now. Anyway, something to aspire too. Check their blog.